Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past year, the boys also recall the somber fate of Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, a gangland fixer who could smooth out any legal or political hump-and leave no tracks at all in the underworld sand. When he also was called before a grand jury, The Camel lost his cool. Rather than land in jail for silence or six feet under for talking, he lied-so ineffectually that he was hauled in on a perjury charge. That night, out on bail and back in his Marina City Towers suite, The Camel died of a heart attack. The diagnosis was that...
...situation is not exactly new. The man who first said "I don't know what the younger generation is coming to" probably died several thousand years ago. But Americans in the mid-1960s seem to have more reason than ever to lose their cool about the young. FBI statistics tell them that youngsters under 25 account for 73.4% of the arrests for murders, rapes, larcenies and other major crimes, and cause 31.5% of all traffic fatalities. Youth stages demonstrations in support of the country's enemies. Youth parades with placards of four-letter words. Youth scandalizes proud suburbs...
...Western society" regard the young "with hatred." With people living longer and retaining their vigor into advanced age, there is certainly less disposition by the mature to make way-although "hatred" seems overstating the case. Still, the diagnosis may yet prove accurate, unless the older generation keeps its cool about the young...
...bats in Mauritius, and sheep eyes in North Africa. Despite her exotic intake, she remains a model of gauntness. "I only gain weight when I am terribly depressed," she maintains. Apparently, there is nothing depressing Capucine at present, except the gnawing feeling that the pussycat may be keeping so cool that as a comedienne she is growing cold. As she views the progress of the sex kittens in Hollywood, she sometimes broods about her icicle style. "I don't know," she says. "Sometimes I feel that I would like to cut loose and start throwing pies...
Another Russian specialist, who preferred to remain anonymous, confirmed that that was an advancement for Shelepin and a demotion for Podgerny. However, he noted, "if people think he's the heir apparent, chances are he won't assume the throne." He described Shelepin as a man of "cool intelligence." He's a kind of McGeorge Bundy figure, only more sinister," he said...